Report by Duncan Williams for Pulman's Weekly News
Axminster Town Council has issued a stark warning following another spate of vandalism and anti-social behaviour across the town, saying the cost of repeated damage is increasingly falling on local taxpayers.
Council staff arriving at work last week discovered a series of incidents affecting public spaces and property, including damaged signs, uprooted plants and litter strewn across the Minster area.
According to the council, signs had been defaced, moved or thrown into hedges, while barriers had also been damaged. Officials say the ongoing destruction is placing growing pressure on already stretched resources.
In a statement released on Friday, 8th May, the council said: “It is fast reaching a tipping point where this Council, and every other Council at every tier of local government, simply cannot fix the things being destroyed as fast as they are being broken and wrecked.”
The authority warned that the financial impact of repeated vand…
